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VOLUNTEER KENYA WITH GREEN HILLS ECOTOURS Green hills ecotours( Treks & Expedition) conducts special Volunteering Programs in Rwanda. The main objective is to provide opportunities to the guests, who genuinely are interested in gaining cultural experience by contributing their time and skills to the needy community groups in Rwanda. By sharing each other’s knowledge and cultural backgrounds, the volunteer’s time ... Read More »

VOLUNTEER BURUNDI WITH GREEN HILLS ECOTOURS Green hills ecotours( Treks & Expedition) conducts special Volunteering Programs in Rwanda. The main objective is to provide opportunities to the guests, who genuinely are interested in gaining cultural experience by contributing their time and skills to the needy community groups in Rwanda. By sharing each other’s knowledge and cultural backgrounds, the volunteer’s time ... Read More »

VOLUNTEER DRCongo WITH GREEN HILLS ECOTOURS Green hills ecotours( Treks & Expedition) conducts special Volunteering Programs in Rwanda. The main objective is to provide opportunities to the guests, who genuinely are interested in gaining cultural experience by contributing their time and skills to the needy community groups in Rwanda. By sharing each other’s knowledge and cultural backgrounds, the volunteer’s time ... Read More »

As a fifteen-year-old boy in his native Rwanda, Frederic Ndabaramiye was dragged from a bus and brutally attacked by Interahamwe rebels. When he refused to kill 18 fellow passengers the rebels hacked off Frederic’s hands with machetes and left him for dead. After a year in hospital, Frederic was placed in Imbabazi, an orphanage started by American Roseamond Carr in ... Read More »

Burundi has an incredibly beautiful landscape and rich and varied flora and fauna. From the shores of Lake Tanganyika, the deepest lake in Africa, the land rises abruptly to create dramatic rock formations, gorges with waterfalls, and hot springs. For animal lovers, the cloud forest in the northwest is a haven for primates, while the Rusizi Delta is an oasis ... Read More »

Kibira National Park – Burundi Kibira National Park: Just south of the Rwanda border, Perched at an altitude between 1,500 and 2,660 m at the top of the Congo-Nile range is Kibira Park, a majestic primeval rain forest spread over 40,000 ha. Formerly a sacred hunting preserve for the kings of Burundi, it is now a protected area and home ... Read More »

Semliki National Park (221 sq km) and the beautiful Semliki wildlife reserve lie on the southern shores of Lake Albert and offers a mosaic of different habitats with some excellent birding opportunities. The Toro-Semliki Wildlife Reserve (formerly called the Toro Game Reserve) is subtly different and shows affinities with the northern savanna woodland with over 400 bird species and a ... Read More »

Mgahinga Gorilla National Park sits high in the clouds, at an altitude of between 2,227m and 4,127m with a size of 33.7km2. As its name suggests, it was created to protect the rare mountain gorillas that inhabit its dense forests, and it is also an important habitat for the endangered golden monkey. As well as being important for wildlife, the ... Read More »

Lake Mburo national park (371sq km) is known as the ‘Home for Zebras’. The park’s well developed Acacia woodland harbors a number of wildlife species and it is the best place in the country to see the gigantic eland antelope, as well as topi, impala and several acacia-associated birds. Lake Mburo is the largest of the five lakes found in ... Read More »